Writing table variables with quotations marks ("Placeholder variable name")

Hi.

When loading, manipulating and subsequently writing a table (readtable, writetable) my column/variable names are saved to .csv files with no quotation marks surround them.

E.g.:

Reading variable names like: ["id","frame","x","y","sigma","intensity"]

and subsequently saving them as: [id,frame,x,y,sigma,intensity]

This causes issue with my further use of the tables. I could manually edit, but would prefer to be able to bulk process.

Cheers.

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

'QuoteStrings',true

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/writetable.html#btyc9ne-1_sep_btyc9ne-1-QuoteStrings

Otherwise it is likely not difficult to write your own file using fprintf.

[Aske Ejdrup]

'QuoteStrings',true

That only seems works for cells of the table, not the variable names themselves.

I'm not familiar with writing to .txt or .csv with fprintf but will give it a shot if no "quick fix" is possible.

Thanks